Our group is planning on making our film based on the surrounding and scenery of Elizabeth Castle and the people there, our inspiration for the film is based on Wes Andersons films and the technique he uses, he tends to have main objects central of the frame.
On Wednesday we went to go visit some of the photo archives linking to Elizebeth Castle.
Photo archives—collections of photographs held by libraries or museums—have long been essential tools for research in the humanities.
Since 1993 Jersey Archive has collected over 300,000 archival records and it is the island’s national repository holding archival material from public institutions as well as private businesses and individuals. Jersey Archive is the Island’s national repository holding records on all aspects of Jersey’s history. Researchers can use archive resources to trace their family history, the story of their house or street and to find out more about over 600 years of our unique history including the German Occupation of Jersey during the Second World War.
Societe Jersiaise is where members of the public are able to access the content from the archives and gain information.
“Our mission is to produce and facilitate research on the Island’s history, culture, language and environment; and to share that knowledge with the widest possible audience for the benefit of our island community.”
Chris Marker, (1921-2012) was a French filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor and multi-media artist who has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel. What makes the film interesting for the purposes of this discussion, is that while in editing terms it uses the language of cinema to construct its narrative effect, it is composed entirely of still images showing images from the featureless dark of the underground caverns of future Paris, to the intensely detailed views across the ruined city, and the juxtaposition of destroyed buildings with the spire of the Eiffel Tower.
Le Jetee is about A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
Le Jetee is told through still images, and archival images, the photos represent similarities of WW2 in the fact it is talking about atomic bombs as they were last used in WW2 as world war 3 hasn’t happened yet.
Film narrative:
Narrative film: A fictional or fictionalized story. As opposed to documentaries (non-narrative films).
What is a narrative?
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional or fictional. Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. A story that is told in a sequential order of events.
What is a film?
A series of moving images shown on a screen, usually with sound, that make up a story.
La Jetée ) is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Chris Marker, (1921-2012) was a French filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor and multi-media artist who has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel. Furthermore what makes the film interesting for the purposes of discussion, is that while in editing terms it uses the language of cinema to construct its narrative effect, it is composed entirely of still images showing images from the featureless dark of the underground caverns of future Paris, to the intensely detailed views across the ruined city, and the juxtaposition of destroyed buildings with the spire of the Eiffel Tower.
La Jetee was composed of static images with a VoiceOver which provided the necessary information for the audience to understand the short film. The phrase ‘La Jetee’ translates to English as ‘The Pier’ more specifically ‘a small pier for use as a landing-place’ which relates to the meaning of the film. ‘The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III’s devastation, told through still images‘ which suggests ‘The Pier’ connotes this idea that its his path to freedom once he is able to relive his memories he has forced to hide. Furthermore the main theme that La Jette is trying to explore is morality. As how the man lives to only find out the moment that has marked his entire life is the memory of his own death, from a philosophical point of view, La Jetee is an existentialist tale of doomed existence, inevitability, and predetermined death.